To ruin an Omega novel Chapter 420

Chapter 420: Girls get it done

FIA

"Run," I told Morrigan, and I meant it. I didn’t look away from Aldric when I said it, because I knew the moment I did, he would take advantage of it. "Get out of here. Now."

"No." 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

It came out flat, like she had already made peace with whatever was about to happen.

I spared her a glance anyway, and that was my first mistake. She had moved closer instead of retreating, her stance shifting as the change started to take hold. It wasn’t a full shift, not yet, but I could see it happening under her skin, bones pressing and reforming, fingers lengthening into claws that caught the dining room light. Her breathing had changed too, becoming heavier and deeper as something older and meaner rose to the surface.

"Mother-in-law, you can’t—"

"I have a score to settle with this bastard," she cut in, and her voice didn’t sound like hers anymore. It had dropped into something rough, something edged with a growl that made the hairs at the back of my neck stand up. "You’re the one who should go. You’re pregnant, Fia."

Aldric laughed.

It wasn’t loud, but it carried, dragging across my nerves in a way that made my stomach turn. He rolled his shoulders like he was loosening up for a spar, casual, almost bored, and when his gaze slid to Morrigan, there was nothing there but contempt.

"You’re old, Morrigan," he said, like he was pointing out something obvious. "And you’re no Alpha. Take the Omega’s advice and run. Even she has a better fighting chance than you."

Morrigan’s lip curled, and I saw the flash of fangs where her teeth had sharpened.

"You tormented your own brothers for so long," she said, and there was something heavy in the way she spoke, something that had been sitting in her chest for years, maybe decades. "Instead of dying and going to hell like you deserve, you still linger. Still crawl back to torment him."

She stepped forward, slow and deliberate.

"Die."

Aldric moved first.

He came low and fast, faster than anything that size had a right to be, but Morrigan met him halfway like she had been waiting for it. Her clawed hand snapped out and caught his arm mid-swing, and she twisted hard enough that I heard the crack of bone, or at least something close to it.

But even at that, he barely reacted.

His other hand came up in a brutal uppercut that connected with her jaw. The sound of it made something in my chest tighten. Her head snapped back, her body rocking with the force, but she didn’t go down.

I didn’t think after that. Thinking would have slowed me down, and slowing down would have gotten us killed.

I moved.

I slammed into his side with everything I had, my shoulder taking the brunt of it, and the impact knocked us both off balance. We hit the floor hard enough that the breath punched out of me, my lungs burning as I tried to drag air back in, but I didn’t give him time to recover. I drove my knee up into his ribs, feeling the jolt of it run all the way up my leg.

He grunted, more annoyed than hurt, and then his elbow came out of nowhere.

It caught me at the temple.

For a second, everything went white as if someone had wiped the world clean. Then the stars came, sharp and disorienting, and the room tilted under me as my balance slipped. I felt his weight shift as he tried to pin me, his hand catching at my shoulder, forcing me down.

And then he was gone.

Morrigan had him.

Her hands locked around his throat from behind, claws digging in just enough to hold, and she hauled him backward with a strength that didn’t match her frame. I rolled away, coughing as air finally rushed back into my lungs, each breath dragging like it had to fight its way in.

"Stay down," she snarled at him, her grip tightening.

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